Publicaciones de referencia (de los útlimos 10 años)

• Avila C, Taboada S,  L Núñez-Pons. 2008. Antarctic marine chemical ecology: what's next?. Marine Ecology: An Evolutionary perspective 29:1-70.


• Avila C. 2016a. Biological and chemical diversity in Antarctica: from new species to new natural products. Biodiversity 17(1):1-7.


• Avila C. 2016b. Ecological and pharmacological activities of Antarctic marine natural products. Planta Medica 82(09/10):767-774.


• Avila C, Núñez-Pons L, Moles J. In press. From the tropics to the poles: A comparison of chemical defensive strategies in sea slug Molluscs (Euthyneura). Book chapter in: Marine Chemical Ecology (CRC Marine Science). VJ Paul, M Puglisi, M Becerro (eds.). CRC Press, 2nd Ed.


• Angulo-Preckler C, Cid C, Oliva F, Avila C. 2015a. Antifouling activity in some benthic Antarctic invertebrates by in situ experiments at Deception Island, Antarctica. Marine environmental research 105:30-38.


• Angulo-Preckler C, Spurkland T, Avila C, Iken K. 2015b. Antimicrobial activity of selected Arctic benthic invertebrates. Polar Biology 38(11):1941-1948.


• Angulo-Preckler C, Genta-Jouve G, Mahajan N, de la Cruz M, de Pedro N, Reyes F, Iken K,  Avila C, Thomas OP. 2016. Gersemiols A-C and Eunicellol A, Diterpenoids from the Arctic Soft Coral Gersemia fruticosa.  Journal of Natural Products 79(4):1132–1136.


• Angulo-Preckler C, Tuya F, Avila C. In press. Abundance and size patterns of echinoderms in coastal soft-bottoms at Deception Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Continental Shelf Research (Jan 2017).


• Cutignano A, Zhang W, C Avila, Cimino G, Fontana A. 2011. Intrapopulation variability in the terpene metabolism of the Antarctic opisthobranch mollusc Austrodoris kerguelenensis. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 27:5383-5389.


• Cutignano A, C Avila, A Rosica, G Romano, B Laratta, A Domenech-Coll, G Cimino, E Mollo, A Fontana. 2012. Biosynthesis and cellular localization of functional polyketides in the gastropod mollusc Scaphander lignarius. Chembiochem 2012(13):1759-1766.


• Cutignano A, Moles J, Avila C, Fontana A. 2015. Granuloside, a unique linear homosesterterpene from the Antarctic nudibranch Charcotia granulosa. Journal of Natural Products 78:1761-1764.


• Figuerola B, Núñez-Pons L, Moles J, Avila C. 2013a. Feeding repellence in Antarctic bryozoans. Naturwissenschaften 100 (11):1069-1081.


• Figuerola B, Taboada S, Monleón-Getino T, Vázquez J, Avila C. 2013b. Cytotoxic activity of Antarctic benthic organisms against the common sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri. Oceanography 1:107.


• Figuerola B, Núñez-Pons L, Monleón-Getino T, Avila C. 2014a. Chemo–ecological interactions in Antarctic bryozoans. Polar Biology 37:1017–1030.


• Figuerola B, Sala-Comorera L, Angulo-Preckler C, Vázquez J, Montes MJ, García-Aljaro C, Mercadé E, Blanch AR, Avila A. 2014b. Antimicrobial activity of Antarctic bryozoans: An ecological perspective with potential for clinical applications. Marine Environmental Research 101:52–59.


• Glover AG, Wiklund H, Taboada S, Avila C, Cristobo J, Smith CR, Kemp KM, Jamieson AJ, Dahlgren TG. 2013. Bone-eating worms from the Antarctic: the contrasting fate of whale and wood remains on the Southern Ocean seafloor. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 280(1768) :20131390.


• Moles J, Torrent A, Alcaraz MJ, Ruhí R, Avila C. 2014. Anti-inflammatory activity in selected Antarctic benthic organisms. Frontiers in Marine Science 1:24.


• Moles J, Núñez-Pons L, Taboada S, Figuerola B, Cristobo J, Avila C. 2015. Anti-predatory chemical defences in Antarctic benthic fauna. Marine Biology 162:1813-1821.


• Moles J, Wägele H, Cutignano A, Fontana A, C Avila. 2016a. Distribution of granuloside in the Antarctic nudibranch Charcotia granulosa. Marine Biology 163(3):54-65.


• Moles J, Wägele H, Ballesteros M, Pujals A, Uhl G, Avila C. 2016b. The end of the cold loneliness: 3D comparison between Doto antarctica and a new sympatric species of Doto (Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). PLoS ONE 11(7):e0157941.


• Moles J, Wägele H, Uhl G, Avila C. 2016c. Bipolarity in sea slugs: a new species of Doridunculus (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Onchidoridoidea) from Antarctica. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-016-0309-z.


• Moles J, Wägele H, Schrödl M, Avila C. 2016d. A new Antarctic heterobranch clade is sister to all other Cephalaspidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zoologica Scripta (July 2016). DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12199.


• Núñez-Pons L, Carbone M, Paris D, Melck D, Ríos P, Cristobo J, Castelluccio F, Gavagnin M, Avila C. 2012a. Chemo-ecological studies on hexactinellid sponges from the Southern Ocean. Naturwissenschaften 99(5):353-368.


• Núñez-Pons L, Rodríguez-Arias M, Gómez-Garreta A, Ribera-Siguán A, Avila C. 2012b. Feeding deterrency in Antarctic marine organisms: bioassays with the omnivore amphipod Cheirimedon femoratus. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 462:163-174.


• Núñez-Pons L, Carbone M, Vázquez J, Rodríguez J, Nieto RM, Varela MM, Gavagnin M, Avila C. 2012c. Natural products from Antarctic colonial ascidians of the genera Aplidium and Synoicum: variability and defensive role. Marine Drugs 10:1741-1764


• Núñez-Pons L, Carbone M, Vázquez J, Gavagnin M, Avila C. 2013. Lipophilic defenses from Alcyonium soft corals of Antarctica. Journal of Chemical Ecology 39:675-685.


• Núñez-Pons L, Nieto RM, Avila C, Jiménez C, Rodríguez J. 2014a. Mass spectrometry detection of minor new meridianins from the Antarctic colonial ascidians Aplidium falklandicum and Aplidium meridianum. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 50(1):103-111.


• Núñez-Pons L, Avila C. 2014b. Defensive Metabolites from Antarctic Invertebrates: Does Energetic Content Interfere with Feeding Repellence? Marine Drugs 12(6):3770-3791.


• Núñez-Pons L, Avila C. 2014c. Deterrent activities in the crude lipophilic fractions of Antarctic benthic organisms: Chemical defences against keystone predators. Polar Research 33:21624.


• Núñez-Pons L, Avila C. 2015. Natural products mediating ecological interactions in Antarctic ecosystems: A mini-Review of the known molecules. Natural Product Reports 32:1114-1130.


• Nuzzo G, Cutignano A, Moles J, Avila C, Fontana A. 2016. Exiguapyrone and exiguaone, new polypropionates from the Mediterranean cephalaspidean mollusc Haminoea exigua. Tetrahedron Letters 57(1):71-74.


• Reyes F, Fernández R, Rodríguez A, Francesch A, Taboada S, Avila C, Cuevas C. 2008. Aplicyanins A–F, new cytotoxic bromoindole derivatives from the marine tunicate Aplidium cyaneum. Tetrahedron 64(22):5119-5123.


• Riesgo A, Taboada S, Sánchez-Vila L, Solà J, Bertrán A, Avila C. 2015. Some like it fat: Comparative ultrastructure of the embryo in two demosponges of the genus Mycale (Order Poecilosclerida): Mycale acerata from Antarctica and Mycale laevis from the Caribbean. PLoS ONE 10(3):e0118805.


• Riesgo A, Taboada S, Avila C. 2015. Evolutionary patterns in Antarctic marine invertebrates: an update on molecular studies. Marine Genomics 23:1-13.


• Taboada S, García-Fernández LF, Bueno S, Vázquez J, Cuevas C, Avila C. 2010. Antitumoural activity in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic benthic organisms. Antarctic Science 22:494–507.


• Taboada S, Núñez-Pons L, Avila C. 2013. Feeding repellence of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic benthic invertebrates against the omnivorous sea star Odontaster validus. Polar Biology 36:13-25.


• Taboada S, Riesgo A, Bas M, Arnedo MA, Cristobo FJ, Rouse GW, Avila C. 2015. Bone-eating worms spread: Insights into shallow-water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean waters. PLoS ONE 10(11):e0140341.


• Taboada S, Bas M, Garriga M, Leiva C, Sardà R, Avila C. 2016. Life after death: Shallow-water polychaete communities associated to mammal bones in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology 37:164-178.